Favourite methods
 

So what Is your preferred method of fly fishing? For myself, I really enjoy swinging soft hackles and streamers both on a single and two handed rods

Sight fishing dries. When it's good it's tough to fish any other way

Chironomids under an indicator..Lake fishing

Depends on where and for what I am fishing, but in general follow the hatch with wet flies, emergers then dries. Mostly Dries.

Sight fishing on dries is of course the best, but my heart still jumps every time my indicator goes down.

Fly fishing does cover a lot of ground, in Steelhead fishing the tug is the drug. Bass topwater poppers. Early season sight fishing for Lakers, lots of methods and madness out there. mind you other times on streams I am mesmerized with this.

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Dry dropper all year long. Every now and then I fish for a good streamer take, there’s just something about a good side hook-set from the hip.

Everyone loves a tight line, how myself or others get it, is fine with me :)

Stripping streamers in clear water for aggressive fish is hard to beat

If the fish are biting I am not going to get picky on the method though

Streamer junkie here!

I love to European nymph. Fishing dries is a close second.

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x3 on dries. Certainly the most challenging in trying to fool fish consistently. I can have my arm twisted however to trolling streamers or dropping an cronomid under an indicator on a lake. Nymphing least favourite (still fun) but likely most productive.

I don’t prefer one method over the other. However I tend to start by drifting dry’s over spit that look like they’d be holding fish. If that’s not working then l add a nymph on a dropper. If that’s not catching I’ll throw everything I can think of at them

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Hanging a balanced leech and/or a chironomid under an indicator is my go to for most lake fishing, except for the backswimmer/boatman action in the fall when covering a rise is the most exciting time.

hopper/ dropper while prospecting water. Nothing beats a parachute adams on glass when the fish are biting though. :fishing:

Early on while learning fly fishing, my most consistent days were nyphing, double rig. Nothing like proper placement, and catching on drys though.

When I first started I also preferred dries and it is very exciting for sure. Now I find that I catch larger fish when I’m subsurface with wets and streamers

Foambugs!!! On the bow. Lots of other good stuff to but by far big ol dryfly eats

Last year it was 8”-12” streamers for big lakers, browns, walleye and pike, I go through phases.

X2...Nailed it with first post.
Swinging wets for Atlantics and Steelhead is my hands down favorite thing to do.....when I daydream about flyfishing,that is what comes to mind...but in landlocked Alberta I get my swing fix swinging streamers,traditional wets,and soft hackles which are very productive,in fact,in recent years I’ve gravitated more towards soft hackles then anything else because they work so well.
That said....fishing dries is great fun when the fish are looking up and cooperative,but day in and day out soft hackles are da bomb....productive like nymphing with the fun of actually casting/swinging flies.
I could care less how productive indi-nymphing is,it’s a gross way of “flyfishing” imho.....I quit fishing with a bobber when I was 12.😝
If I wanted to nymph under a bobber I’d use(and have used)a centerpin outfit

It’s a hard tie between nymphing with an indicator (stillwater and flowing water) and stripping streamers. I love both of those methods. Dries and poppers are fun, but I’m more confident with the former methods, and thus I find it more enjoyable.

Swinging and stripping streamers, then dry fly with a dropper.

Dry flies while walking and wading on a warm summer day is my favourite. On a lake, casting damsel or dragon nymphs into the edge of a weed bed is lots of fun. Fish are pretty aggressive and the takes explosive.

#bobberfree

Spot and stalk lips.

Very unusual but probably why I like it. Sheridan lake has chironomid fishing at 60 to 80' depth. All my >10 pound trout have been caught during this hatch.
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Two-handed, Tight line, Floating line or Light tips, Swung flies to tide fresh steelhead and chinook. The grab is mind-blowing.

imho.....I quit fishing with a bobber when I was 12.😝

That’s funny😂

My favorite is spring time surface popping for jacks , big or small , still love it!
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